Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Senior Software Engineer roles that sit in a production control plane are a strong signal of where modern SaaS differentiation is happening: in the reliability, automation, and governability of cloud infrastructure at scale. Snowflake’s focus on provisioning and lifecycle management places this work close to the operational backbone of a large, multi-tenant data platform, where platform decisions directly shape service availability and customer experience.
For a SaaS engineer, this is career-building territory because it blends software engineering with platform engineering in the environments that most SaaS companies eventually converge on. The remit implies exposure to infrastructure as code, CI/CD, distributed systems troubleshooting, and cross-service orchestration, all of which translate well across cloud-native SaaS organizations. The emphasis on technical leadership and mentoring also points to work that goes beyond ticket delivery into setting patterns, improving internal platforms, and raising operational maturity.
This role tends to suit senior engineers who like owning complex systems end to end, including incident response and long-horizon improvements. It is a good fit for professionals motivated by platform adoption and enablement across partner teams, and for those comfortable pairing pragmatic engineering with rigorous security and data-handling expectations in production environments.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
We are hiring talented Senior Software Engineers for our Production Control Plane team.
The team is responsible for seamless, automated, and scalable cloud infrastructure deployment, provisioning, and lifecycle management. If you are passionate about building cloud platforms this opportunity may be for you.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:
Build a deep understanding of Snowflake’s infrastructure and services.
Apply both infrastructure and software engineering to deliver a highly scalable, resilient, and performant platform.
Provide technical leadership on large, complex projects that span infrastructure, platforms, tools, and automation in the cloud.
Champion platform adoption to meet business goals across partner teams.
Lead and mentor more junior engineers.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - PRODUCTION CONTROL PLANE AT SNOWFLAKE WILL HAVE:
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP) or platform engineering.
Ownership mindset, self-direction, and a passion for solving complex problems.
Strong software engineering fundamentals.
Proficiency in one or more languages: Go, Java, Python, or C++.
Daily operational experience with AI-driven software development (Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent).
Expertise in infrastructure-as-code frameworks (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar).
Expertise in CI/CD systems (Github Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
Strong distributed-systems troubleshooting and incident resolution skills.
BONUS:
Proficiency with Kubernetes, especially on the platform side.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
